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MTV contest may have two students going to the Oscars

Phelps taking a hit from the media

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Despite controversy surrounding the Olympic swimmer, Josh Whetherholt feels the situation is over dramatized for Michael Phelps | Page 4

Looking out for food safety Lawmakers are hoping to put together stronger legislation on food safety amid the ongoing national salmonella outbreak | Page 5

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Celebrities, red carpet and... two University students? Seniors Nicole Lovince and Chad Courtney have a chance to represent the University as MTV correspondents at the 2009 81st annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles.

Lovince and Courtney, both film production majors, entered the MTV contest for a chance to win a spot as a correspondent and cameraman, repectively, for this years Oscars held on Feb. 22.

Kris Kirk, affiliate relations for MTV, said they chose 10 video submissions out of 100 for the semi-finalists round.

“Of the 100, [we] chose people who were the most creative, had the most camera sense and experience,” Kirk said. “[Lovince] kind of stood out.”

Lovince, who has been a correspondent for local companies in her hometown of New Orleans, hopes her past experience will help her stand out against the rest of the semi-finalists.

“I’ve covered local clubs and

other big events, so I know the right things to ask [celebrities],” she said. “I have lots of personality and I would like BEN LOHMAN | THE BG NEWS to get to know the celebrities better.”

GOLDEN SMILE: Nicole Lovince may After learning about the be heading to this years Oscars in L.A. MTV contest from emails sent from the University’s film department, Lovince chose Courtney to help her film her entry. The two of them quickly shot, edited and sent in their video proclaiming why they should be picked.

Just days after they entered their video online, they were notified by MTV they were chosen to be in the semi-finalist round.

“I found out the day school was cancelled because of the

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By Allison Borgelt Reporter

Terrific Advisor, Top Academic, Trustworthy Authority... there are many ways to describe a top-notch teaching assistant. These descriptions and many more can be shared by members of the University community through nominations for the 2008 Graduate Teaching Assistant Award.

The yearly award is sponsored by the Graduate Student Enhancement Program (GradSTEP) and the Graduate College, and it distinguishes the University’s top graduate teaching assistants. This year’s nomination deadline is Feb. 9.

Barbara Peck, director of GradSTEP, said the award will probably be given to three TA’s this year, who will receive more than simple recognition.

“The student [TA] recognizes they have made immense strides in their teaching development, in their personal development, as a teacher [and] as a professional,” she said. “It’s just one way that we can just say, ‘Thank you for what you are doing for the University and for our students.’”

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A new class of football players

By Lin Chafetz Reporter

This 10th Annual Black Issues Conference kicks off this tomorrow, Feb. 6 in the Union.

The theme for this year’s conference is “The Talented Tenth,” in memory of W.E.B. Du Bois, an early American civil rights activist. The conference wanted to recognize Du Bois because he believed that a tenth of the African American population would rise above adversity to lead the remaining ninety percent to a better way of living, accord-

Another win for men’s basketball SPORTS

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Conference aims for diversity, discussion

OSCARS: Chad Courtney may have the chance to attend the 2009 Oscars.

After National Signing Day, the Sports section takes a look at the new football recruits Dave Clawson will be working with for next year | Page 6

The award process begins when undergraduates, graduate students, faculty members and administrators nominate teaching assistants who have taught at least one class, laboratory or study/recitation section in the past year. Nominators must submit a basic nomination form (found on the GradSTEP Web site), as well as a one-page letter describing reasons for their nominations.

Kyle Holody, GradSTEP coordinator of summer programs, is in charge of compiling the nominations. He said around 15 nominations had arrived as of Feb. 3, and he expects even more to come in before the submission deadline.

The majority of nominations he has received have come from faculty members.

“Anybody can nominate the TA’s except for themselves, so if the graduate students in their departments have noticed that their colleagues are exceptionally good at their jobs, they should nominate their colleagues instead of relying on faculty and undergraduates to

Men’s basketball won last night over Western Michigan 68-61, leaving them undefeated in the MAC-West | Page 6

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LOGO: The Black Issues Conference begins tomorrow in the Union.

ing to the members of the BIC Committee.

The schedule for events for the conference includes the kick off tomorrow, which will include

Focus BG hopes to bring enviromental awareness to campus through seminars

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OOPS: Niki McCoy, pictured above, was cited with two count of operating a vehicle under the influence and having an open container of liquor early yesterday morning.

Women’s basketball player receives citations

By Kristin Vasas City Editor

Niki McCoy, a starting forward for the women’s basketball team, was cited with two counts of operating a vehicle under the influence and having an open container of liquor in her vehicle yesterday morning.

At 2:40 a.m. Wednesday McCoy, 22, of Slyvania, was stopped driving southbound onto North Summit from eastbound Pike.

Two passengers, Elizabeth Sowers, 22, of Goshen, Ind., and Melissa Jeltema, 20, of Grand Rapids, Ind., were also in the car with her. Jeltema was later cited with open container of alcohol in a motor vehicle and underage possession of alcohol.

Upon asking McCoy, Sowers and Jeltema for identification, police observed a plastic cup labeled Budweiser and a 750 mL bottle of Captain Morgan’s Parrot Bay Passion Fruit Rum on the rear passanger floorboard of the vehicle.

All three girls were transported to the Bowling Green Police Department, where McCoy was given a breath test resulting in a .178 BAC level.

Women’s basketball coach Curt Miller said in a written statement: “Our team is a special and closeknit family, and Niki is a part of that family. We will be support-

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Today students are taking a break from their fast-paced college environment to focus on the natural one, a deteriorating one.

Focus BG, sponsored by the Environmental Action Group, is a day full of seminars to discuss the issues and effects of energy on the community, the nation and the world, EAG president Laura Winebarger said.

The events starts this morning on the 3rd floor of the Union at 11 a.m. and will run until 4 p.m. Winebarger said a new seminar will begin every hour with topics ranging from understanding global warming to the expense of renewable energies. The seminars were set up, Winebarger said, to educate students about all the effects of climate change.

“We really wanted students to see the how this issues are important to so many different aspects of life,” she said.

Secretary Mary Olive said hopefully the event raises the issues of energy and global warming and get students talking about it. She said many students don’t understand how

these issues influence their lives. She also said many students don’t know the difference between what is fact and fiction in issues like global warming and climate change.

“Many people think the debate is whether global warming is real but the debate is what is causing it,” Olive said. “We know it’s happening.”

Following the seminars, at 7:30 in the Union theater, keynote speaker Elisa Young will present her experiences and issues with the coal industry of Ohio, junior Elizabeth Warther said. Young started a community group called Meigs Citizen Action Now. The group is dedicated to working against the devastating environmental conditions created by the coal industry in Meigs County, Warther said.

The presentation is not meant to just educate students and community members about the problems in Meigs County, Warther said, but to inform on how the University and the city of Bowling Green fit into the problem. The city has invested into the new coal-fired power plant in Meigs County so a portion of the energy produced buy the power plant will run some

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of the homes and businesses in the community.

“The coal power plant Elisa [Young] is trying to stop is being funded by the by BG,” she said.

“This is as much Elisa’s problem as it is ours.”

Warther said she hopes students and community members will attend the seminars and Young’s presentation to get the information they need to make a difference environmentally.

“These are issues we really need to understand and fix,” she said.

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food, music and open mic at the Union, public workshops on Saturday including a session with the key note speaker, James T. Jackson, and a morning service on Sunday.

Kendra Jackson, the Programming Chair of the BIC believes people should go to the conference because the BIC serves as an academic enhancement.

“It’s important that society is diverse. We need to discuss the issues that black people face, in order to help people in the professional world,” Kendra said.

James T. Jackson, who is called JJ by his former students at the University, started the BIC at the University and is currently a member of the Division of Student Affairs at the University of Toledo, and the director of the African American Student Enrichment Initiatives Office. He has also earned the “Bowling Green State University Dean Jill Carr Award for Outstanding Service to Students” in 2007.

“It is an honor to have JJ at the conference, especially because it’s the 10th, and because he started it,” Kendra said.

Last year over 200 people from the University came to the conference, according to Kendra, a number which doesn’t include the visiting students from universities such as Ball State, Miami University and the University of Toledo.

Examples of some of the sessions students can attend on Saturday include one session on the Obamas called the “Ideal Family,” and a session on Black Greek Life.

Registration for the workshops on Saturday begins at 9:30 a.m. in the Union. For students at the University, the price is five dollars, for kids 12 and under, seven dollars and 10 dollars for students from other universities.

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Frederick Claybaugh, 47, of Bowling Green, was cited for disorderly conduct after loud music could be heard repeatedly from outside his residence on South Main Street.

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OSCARS From Page 1 weather,” Courtney said. “I got a call from MTV saying, you’re in the top 10!”

Courtney, who interned for Shadowcast pictures and was first assistant camera operater on the short-film “Closed for the Season,” did the lighting, camerawork and special effects for their video submission.

Anyone can vote for the semifinalists online at http://www. mtvu.com/win/2009-oscars-student-correspondent/. Once on the Web site, voters can watch the video submissions of all 10 semifinalists and vote for whoever they want as many times as they want.

Voting for the semi-finalists ends at 5 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 6.

Voting for the top three finalists will continue Feb. 9. The top three finalists will fly to Los Angeles to partake in all the weekend Oscar events. The grand prize winner will get to be the red carpet correspondent at the Oscars, as well as tickets in the balcony to attend the event.

Last Week’s Winner:

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Brendan, a sophomore, serves on the hall council in Offenhaur West, where he resides. Originally from Middletown, Ohio, Brendan has traveled all across the U.S. In fact, he has been to 49 of the 50 states. Hawaii is the only state Brendan has not traveled to, which will hopefully change soon, he said. When he’s not traveling and fulfilling his hall council duties, Brendan can be found at Howards enjoying a good indie or classic rock show.

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NOMINATE From Page 1 do that,” Holody said.

Once the nomination deadline has passed, GradSTEP notifies the nominated TA’s and sends them instructions on how to apply for the award. Applicants must submit a variety of information, including current resumes, letters of recommendation and teaching philosophies.

Molly Henry, a doctoral student and winner of the 2006 Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, recalled her surprise upon learning she was nominated.

“I was pretty jazzed actually to find out,” Henry said. “I had absolutely zero teaching experience prior to being a TA for the class that I was nominated in, and it’s a little bit hard to gauge your ability to do this job, I guess.

You always sort-of feel insecure.”

Henry said she was feeling a little uneasy the day she received the award, as several people from GradSTEP randomly began filing

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into one of her classes.

“They stopped class and they were looking for me,” Henry said.

“I started to get a little nervous just because I didn’t know what was going on.”

Henry was merely taking part in what Peck described as the “most fun” component of the award process: the surprise award presentation, which takes place in the winning TAs’ classes.

“We want to involve the students in the class[es] in the award presentation because they are usually the individuals that nominate this teaching assistant for this recognition,” Peck said.

Prior to the surprise presentations, the TAs’ applications are reviewed, and winners are chosen by a committee of GradSTEP staff and the GradSTEP Advisory Council.

The University president, president of the Graduate Student Senate, GradSTEP director and dean of the Graduate School are all invited to present the award during the designated class sessions.

Other invitees include the TAs’ college dean, graduate coordinators, advisers, department chairs, teaching supervisors, media representatives and the award committee members, according to the GradSTEP Web site.

Winning TA’s are given certificates during their surprise class visits, along with invitations to the Shanklin Awards Banquet in April, where the dean of the Graduate School will present them with plaques and checks for $250, according to the GradSTEP Web site.

According to Henry, the best part of receiving the award was being asked to speak during graduate student orientation in the summer.

“It was really cool to interact with those people and respond to some of their worries and excitements,” she said.

Henry said she would definitely encourage the University community to nominate TA’s for the Graduate Teaching Assistant Award.

“I think the job of TA is not very glamorous, and if you actually really do care about what you’re doing, and you try quite hard and it’s recognized down the road, then it sort of reinforces that the effort you’ve put in is actually doing some good for someone,” Henry said.

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Obama extends kids’ health insurance

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama yesterday signed a bill extending health coverage to 4 million uninsured children, a move he called a first step toward fulfilling a campaign pledge to provide insurance for all Americans.

It was a victory for Obama a day after his nominee to shepherd his broad health care agenda stepped aside amid tax problems.

Obama used an ebullient East Room signing ceremony to continue his push for his plan that would provide universal health insurance, even as he spent much of the previous day admitting he “screwed up” in naming former Sen. Tom Daschle to spearhead the health care overhaul. He wrapped the signing event in another pitch for his separate $819 billion economic plan that now is under consideration in the Senate and faces

PLAYER From Page 1 ive of Niki. However, our student-athletes are held to a high standard. Niki has made a poor decision and now must take responsibility for her actions.

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“As I think everybody here will agree, this is only the first step,” Obama said of the bill that reauthorizes the State Children’s Health Insurance Program.

“Because the way I see it, providing coverage to 11 million children through CHIP is a down payment on my commitment to cover every single American,” he said to applause before turning to the economic recovery bill.

“It won’t be easy; it won’t happen all at once,” Obama said.

“But this bill that I’m about to sign, that wasn’t easy either.”

Obama and his advisers see the economic crisis as his window to push through many of his campaign pledges. Renewable energy, financial regulation and even rural Internet access all have been tied to repairing the nation’s fractured economy. In the process, Obama has exposed his plan to criticism and questions that threaten to jettison the first major legislation his team has assembled. make further decisions regarding Niki's future once we have gathered more information.”

McCoy has started each of the team’s first 21 games this season, and is averaging 13.6 points and 5.6 rebounds per game.

Jen Uhl, Sarah Clapper, Maribeth Giese and Jessica Slagle will likely share McCoy’s minutes during the suspension.

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by Colleen Fitzgibbons Reporter

The University is not only committed to keeping its students healthy but the faculty and staff as well.

In the fall of 2007 the University received a generous grant from Medical Mutual of Ohio specifically for faculty and staff wellness programming.

“From my understanding, it was something that Medical Mutual wanted to give,” said Faith Yingling, the director of the Wellness Connection. “A proposal was written to Medical Mutual and Medical Mutual of Ohio wanted to give that to the University to help promote faculty and staff wellness across the University.”

In order to utilize the grant, WellAware, a committee dealing with employee health and wellness on campus, got together to come up with a plan.

Caitlin Spontelli, the interim health educator in the Wellness Connection, said the committee includes faculty and staff representatives from Human Resources, the Wellness Connection, Family and Consumer Sciences, the Counseling Center and recreation sports.

The committee came up with an incentive program in order to get the faculty and staff educated and involved in health and wellness.

Spontelli, who has been working with the program since last semester, is in charge of keeping track of who participates, marketing, evaluating the program and adding events of interest to University employees.

She said the program motivates the faculty and staff through various programs and prizes are handed out, such as a Nintendo Wii, Wii Fit and Meijer gifts cards.

In order to be added to the raffle for prizes, faculty and staff must fill out an entry form

by April 30 to the Wellness Connection, room 214 in the Recreation Center. The drawing will take place May 1.

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“You become more knowledgeable and at the same time have a chance to win prizes ” Sheri Messaros | Clerical Specialist Sheri Messaros, a clerical specialist at the Student Health Center.

“I love it, it is so fun,” Messaros said. “My husband and I really like it. We use it a couple times a week and some of my other family members have come over to play.”

But Messaros did not just add her name to a raffle. She had to participate in events offered by the incentive program in order to be eligible.

Faculty and staff can participate in multiple events starting in February to be eligible to win the Wii. Some of them include Weight Watchers at Work, Women’s Center Brown Bag Luncheons, Ergonomic workshops, WellAware Brownbag lunch and Series Safety Training.

Another event for prizes will run from February 23-27. “Know Your Numbers” is a screening program which started fall 2008.

This event offers faculty and staff results for their blood pressure, cholesterol, height and weight.

Yingling said if people who already receive Medical Mutual Insurance participate in this event, they can be reimbursed on their insurance.

Another way faculty and staff can add their name to the raffle is by setting up a free appointment with the registered Dietician in the Student Health Center.

Faculty and staff can also sign up for with a student personal trainer at the Recreation Center.

Layne Davis, the graduate assistant of fitness at the Recreation Center, said the training consultation is an hour long and provides them with plenty of ideas for exercises and an identifiable fitness goal.

Davis, who is also a personal trainer, said faculty and staff must fill out a sheet ahead of time stating what their fitness level currently is and where they

would like to be.

“That’s been a really popular program and [has received] a lot of positive feedback from faculty members,” Davis said.

But while most employees were happy with their training session, some thought an extra session or a follow up would be necessary.

Yingling said both sessions with the dietician and personal trainer is, “to get you to in the door, get you started, get you some information, and get you set on the right track with improving health and wellness.”

Faculty and staff can also walk their way to fitness and into the raffle without worrying about the weather through a newly added addition to the program.

“Walking to Wellness” is an all-week walking program in the Perry Field House. Employees can come in for a walk Monday, Wednesday and Friday from noon to 1 p.m. and on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 7 a.m. to 8 a.m.

Spontelli said last semester almost 300 faculty and staff participated in the health and wellness incentive programs.

“Thus far we are off to a great start with the spring program,” Spontelli said.

Faculty and staff can view the upcoming events and still sign up for this semester by visiting the WellAware website at www.bgsu. edu/offices/ohr/wellaware/.

Spontelli said the incentive program is a good way for University employees to try new things, raise awareness of health and wellness topics as well as promote healthy lifestyles.

Yingling agreed and said the incentive program is “not just sort of one aspect of wellness, there’s a variety of different things that incorporate wellness that people can do to take part in this.”

Messaros said she plans to attend some of the programs offered through the incentive program again this semester, specifically a session with the registered dietician.

“It is a win-win situation because you become more knowledgeable and at the same time have a chance to win prizes,” Messaros said.

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Brown Bag lunch discusses feminism

by Theresa Scott Reporter

What are the particular challenges facing feminist teaching in the 21st century? That was the topic of discussion at yesterday’s Brown Bag Lunch at the Women’s Center, “Feminist Pedagogy for the Twenty-first Century”.

Presenters Roz Sibielski and Angie Fitzpatrick, who are part of the women’s studies program, lead the discussion and shared their experiences with feminist teaching at the University.

It is important for educators who are part of feminist pedagogy to recognize individual student experiences which could prevent them from recognizing oppression, especially the students’ own oppression,

Fitzpatrick said.

Fitzpatrick also noted that now, in a time when more and more working class students are given the opportunity to go to college, educators need to acknowledge working class identity.

“It is important that we really begin to talk about class in our classrooms without romanticizing it or belittling it,” Fitzpatrick said.

One of the reasons for the Brown Bag was to open a discussion about creating opportunities for resistance in the classroom and giving students a place to dissent in the classroom.

Initially, Sibielski anticipated one of the major challenges of feminist teaching on the college campus to be resolving issues with anti feminist sentiment.

Over the past six years, however, Sibielski tried to create a place of mutual respect in the classroom, trying to encourage opposition thought and allowing the classroom to be a place where students can challenge ideas even if she does not personally agree.

Sibielski said she sees a lot of resistance and opposition to feminist ideas in her WS 200 class.

“I began to see that I was treating students whose opinions were oppositional to feminist teaching as problems,” Sibielski said. “By shutting them off I was not really going with feminist pedagogy so I began to make the classroom a place where dissent

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Marijuana pipe picture should not keep Phelps from acclaim JOSH WHETHERHOLT COLUMNIST

Recently, news broke that Olympic athlete and 2008 Sportsman of the Year, Michael Phelps, was caught in a sticky situation after a photo of him smoking marijuana from a bong or “water pipe” at a University of South Carolina party surfaced.

But is this really as big of a deal as the national media is making it out to be? I think not.

Before I really start, let me just state I am not a crazy, Michael Phelps-obsessed fan who thinks he is a god because he is fast in the pool. In fact, I can’t stand seeing him on television most of the time, and personally think he is a moron with public speaking skills to rival George W. Bush. Still, I can’t help but feel the guy is getting a bad rap for a very menial action, and that just isn’t right.

Sure, Phelps is a public figure, a role model for many, and arguably a national hero, but I personally don’t find it to be that big of a shock to know that he occasionally “rocks the ganja” in his spare time. This shouldn’t make him any less admirable an athlete, nor do I think it lowers his chances to do well in future competitions, so long as he doesn’t pull a Ricky Williams and completely walk away from his sport.

The main argument I hear from a lot of people criticizing Phelps for his actions is questioning how he expects to do well in future swimming events when he is using a drug that strains his lungs. It’s reasonable to assume Phelps smoked before he went to Beijing this past summer. No matter how many times he apologizes for the incident, I’m sure he will still take a pull off the peace pipe when it comes his way next; he may just cut back on it a bit.

“A majority of people in this generation wouldn’t see an athlete smoking weed as a huge deal. It’s just not a controversial act to many in our country anymore.”

The fact of the matter is, he won eight gold medals in one Olympics, a feat never done before, and one that probably won’t be matched for a very long time.

Phelps is only a year or so older than most people in college, and I strongly believe a majority of people in this generation wouldn’t see an athlete smoking weed as a huge deal.

It’s just not a controversial act to many in our country anymore.

The source that broke the story and aired the picture of Phelps hitting the bong, “News of the World,” had over 1700 comments on their message boards associated with the article within only a couple days of the news, and guess what? A vast majority of them were in support of Phelps, expressing apathy towards the fact he is now officially a doper, because despite that, he has won 14 Olympic gold medals and is a spectacular athlete, no matter what he does in his free time.

Even the World Anti-Doping Agency, the group that tests athletes before competitions, has stated they really can’t do anything to punish Phelps, beyond expressing disappointment in his behavior, because his infraction was not during a competition period and marijuana is viewed differently from performance-enhancing drugs.

In a press release from Phelps’ agent, Phelps has taken 1,500 drug tests in his time and never failed once. Talk about a hell of a record.

Now the sheriff of Richland County, the county in which Phelps was suspected to be when the picture was taken, is trying to press charges against Phelps, despite the fact that uni-

versity police have no evidence as to where it happened and the local city police in Columbia will not pursue charges unless further information is brought forward. It sounds to me that there is not much to go on for the sheriff’s office and it is more harassment than an investigation, headed by an anti-narcotics-crazy sheriff that apparently got into the business after being inspired by “Miami Vice.” He even goes so far as to dress like the actors from the show and drive a Porsche seized from a drug dealer. Basically Phelps is getting crap from the authorities just so the local fuzz can fulfill their wild fantasies about busting a big name for drug use.

Barring any interference from the authorities in South Carolina, Phelps is theoretically in the clear from any punishment outside of public knowledge of his party habit, even with his sponsors and the athletic drug-testers, so why all the hubbub about this guy taking a man-sized rip from a bong?

To some it may seem as though Phelps is getting a free pass for his activity dabbling in narcotics, something that would get others in a heap of trouble, especially when compared to other athletes who have been caught in similar situations, but these days the stigma surrounding marijuana is practically obsolete.

We should all just get off his back and let him return to doing what he does best — swimming and winning.

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As the government doles out billion-dollar bailouts to Wall Street bankers, workingclass families are losing jobs, retirement savings and their faith in the American dream.

It’s time for bold, bipartisan action to ensure millions of families are not left further behind.

The state of Ohio stands to receive nearly $8 billion in funding from the stimulus package including tax breaks for 4 million working families in the state. I agree the stimulus plan should not simply become a grab bag of wasteful spending — essential programs in the bill are needed to help our state avoid even deeper cuts to educa-

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A crisis is a terrible thing to waste. Our Ohio Senators, Voinovich and Brown, have a historic opportunity to rethink and rebuild our economy to serve the common good of all Americans, not simply the privileged few.

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Dogmatic opinions on both sides obscure the truths behind the Israeli - Palestinian conflict

By Jacob Shapiro U-Wire

I hate the fact that I feel the need to defend the legitimacy of my ideas before I have typed a single, substantive sentence, but I’m afraid that such is the nature of the current discourse surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Discourse and discussion have become polarized into what feels like two distinct groups: those who support the state of Israel, and those who support the humanitarian Palestinian cause.

It’s lonely to be a person who feels like he can relate to both Israelis and Palestinians in the wake of the newest cycle of violence in the conflict. It’s even more frustrating to read columns that are painfully shallow in depth and unnuanced in their treatment of the recent hostilities.

Angry, one-sided op-eds and inflamed rhetoric make the very same mistake as those who utilize violence to solve conflicts. They assume dogmatic possession of the truth. They are insensitive.

They encourage polarization, not empathy. They galvanize radicals on both sides and leave us moderates out in the cold.

It’s not just newspapers, American politicians and television news that are blind in their total acceptance of one side or the other: it has happened to my friends too. Many who strongly advocate on Israel’s behalf installed “Qassam counters” on their Facebook pages so that every time I checked their profiles, I knew exactly how many rockets had been fired from Gaza into Israel. Likewise, supporters of the “other side” changed their Facebook pictures to images of the Palestinian flag and used their statuses to denounce Israeli tyranny or even the “holocaust” of Palestinian civilians.

I am a Zionist and I am an American Jew. I believe Israel’s right to exist is non-negotiable.

Yet I assure you this does not prevent me from being critical of the Israeli government, nor does it prevent my heart from breaking at the loss of Palestinian civilian lives. Personally, I do not think violence was an appropriate response to the end of the cease-fire and the renewal of

“Angry, one-sided op-eds and inflamed rhetoric make the very same mistake as those who utilize violence to solve conflicts.” rocket attacks from Gaza.

The popularity of Hamas within the Gaza Strip itself waned

by December 2008. Gazans themselves had grown tired of the harsh economic consequences forced upon them by an extremely repressive Israeli blockade. Hamas desperately needed a boost in its popularity, and it found a political marriage of convenience with the Israeli government.

With elections for Prime Minister set in February, Ehud Barak and Tzipi Livni in particular were looking to establish their security credentials. The end of the cease-fire gave them a justification to react with force toward Gaza. Hamas popularity has sky-rocketed after the miniwar. How Barak and Livni will fare in February is yet to be seen.

Wouldn’t it be ironic if this round of violence was what catapulted Livni, the Israeli candidate best suited to make peace, into office?

But that’s a whole different issue.

The main point is that Israel’s repressive blockade of Gaza was an integral part of the domino effect that led to the latest outbreak of violence. The use of demeaning checkpoints, the miscalculated use of force and the politics of fear are all things that must change if peace is to be attained.

Yet Hamas too deserves criticism. Hamas militants fired rockets into Israel and deliberately killed innocent civilians. I may not agree with Israel’s use of force in this round of violence, but I can see how it is justified. Israel acted to protect her citizens from rocket attacks that have continued over a period of more than two years now.

In contrast, Hamas used its citizens both to shield themselves from attacks and for political gain. It cloaked its fighters in residential neighborhoods and submerged its weapon caches under hospitals. Recent Hamas tactics are disgusting, and their rockets did pose a meaningful threat to

Israeli civilian lives. There is no way around these points.

Many Israel-detractors argue that the Israeli military response was disproportionate. I’ve yet to hear or read a meaningful explanation of what that means or what a viable alternative would involve. Since when is selfdefense proportional? How many Israeli civilians must die before it is OK to use enough force? How far must the missiles be able to reach? Is there some kind of formula Cornell hasn’t taught me?

If a Hamas militant fires a rocket off of a hospital and kills an Israeli civilian, what should Israel do?

Both sides have exhibited varying degrees of despicable behavior and have made costly mistakes.

I don’t mean to imply a moral equivalence between Hamas and Israel, because there is none, but I don’t know how anyone can sanctimoniously criticize only one side amidst such senseless tragedy. What I do know is that until Israelis realize electing leaders who advocate the use of force and settlement only boosts the popularity of Hamas (the militant party of the day) and perpetuates the cycle of violence, the violence will continue.

Until Palestinians demonstrate they can demand from their government the recognition of Israel and publicly hold their government accountable for the perpetuation of violence, the violence will continue. Until the United States learns that it must be an even-handed negotiator and not Israel’s best friend, the violence will continue. Most relevant, until we students learn to be critical of both sides, respectful of each other (i.e. not stereotyping or prejudicing kashrut-observing American Jews or any group relevant to this discourse), and openly proud of our shared desire for peace, we accomplish nothing but the elimination of meaningful dialogue and the perpetuation of the violence that we so desperately continue to hope will one day cease.

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BLAME BY ASSOCIATION: The Peanut Corp. of America plant in Blakely, Ga. A peanut processing plant in Texas is run by the same company blamed for a national salmonella outbreak.

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By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers vowed yesterday to press for stronger food safety laws and more money for inspections as the list of recalled peanut products surpassed 1,000 in an ongoing national salmonella outbreak.

“There is an openness to putting the together the strongest legislation possible,” said Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., who introduced a bill to reorganize federal food safety enforcement and make it more accountable.

Meanwhile, the number of recalled peanut products approached 1,100 in what independent experts said appears to be a record for foods consumed by humans.

The 2007 recall of melaminetainted pet food eventually grew to 1,179 products but “this is human food,” said Caroline Smith DeWaal, food safety director for the Center for Science in the Public Interest.

“I’m certainly not aware of any recall where so many individual branded products had to be called back, which makes it really complicated for consumers.”

The salmonella outbreak has sickened at least 550 people, eight of whom have died.

A Georgia peanut-processing plant that produces just 1 percent of U.S. peanut products is being blamed. Authorities say Peanut Corp. of America shipped peanut butter, paste and other products that had tested positive for salmonella. The company denies any wrongdoing.

Yesterday, House Education Committee Chairman George Miller, D-Calif., asked the Government Accountability Office to investigate whether any tainted peanut products were distributed to children through the federal school lunch program.

But it remains unclear whether Congress can deliver major improvements in food safety this year, given the press of critical issues such as the shaky economy and a ballooning federal deficit. Senior Democrats are dusting off legislation that went nowhere last year and hoping for better luck under President Barack Obama, who has criticized the Food and Drug Administration’s handling of the outbreak.

Two regular citizens whose lives were changed by the salmonella outbreak joined DeLauro at a press conference in the Capitol building yesterday and described the food safety bureaucracy as slow, opaque and disjointed.

Gabrielle Meunier of South Burlington, Vt., said she spent weeks wondering how her 7year-old son Chris came down with salmonella and wound

up in the hospital, when no one else in the family got sick.

Eventually she found out on the Internet that Canadian authorities had identified salmonella in crackers that her son liked, and which were still in her house.

“That was one of my outrages,” she said. “My seven-year-old could have eaten those crackers again, and he could have died.”

Jeff Almer of Savage, Minn., lost his mother Shirley Mae Almer, who was 72 and twice a cancer survivor. She died the day before she was supposed to come home for Christmas from a rehab center where she was recuperating from a urinary infection.

“I expect that food poisoning will never go away, but there’s so many things that could be done better,” said Almer.

Calling the food safety system “fractious,” he said the government needs automatic access to the internal inspection records of food producers. The FDA had to invoke bioterrorism laws to get testing records from Peanut Corp.

At least four major bills to reform the food safety system have been, or will soon be, introduced. They have major points in common, but differ in details.

All would give the FDA authority to order recalls, which are now voluntary.

Reformers also agree that food processing plants should be required to have a safety plan and document their compliance. And there is widespread agreement that standards for imported foods must be upgraded.

There’s also consensus that inspections should be carried out according to common requirements, but legislators differ on how frequently checks should be performed.

There’s agreement on the need for standards for fresh produce, but there are differences over setting up a traceback system to find foods implicated in an outbreak.

DeLauro’s bill calls for taking food safety away from the FDA, where it is sometimes seen as a bureaucratic stepchild, and setting up a new Food Safety Administration within the Health and Human Services Dept.

William Hubbard, a former FDA associate commissioner, said no reforms can succeed without more money. He says the FDA must double its food safety budget to about $1 billion a year.

But even with that, Hubbard warned, the agency would not be able to regularly inspect some 150,000 facilities that produce, ship and store foods. He says the answer is a food safety system in which the FDA sets rules that all players in the food industry must comply with and that states help to enforce.

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A LITTLE TLC: Elephant handler Trudy Williams tends to “Barack” at the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Center for Elephant Conservation, in Central Florida.

Circus denies allegations of cruelty

By Nedra Pickler The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The treatment of circus elephants went on trial in federal court yesterday with animal rights groups accusing Ringling Bros. of violating the Endangered Species Act when it uses bullhooks and chains to control its performing pachyderms.

During opening statements, the two sides showed dueling videos that painted vastly different portraits of the animals’ lives under the big top.

The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the Animal Welfare Institute and other activist groups say they will prove that Asian elephants are injured physically and emotionally by their treatment in the circus.

The groups say long hours traveling to more than 40 cities a year by train harms the highly social and intelligent animals, and they want Ringling Bros. to stop using them in their shows.

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus and its parent company, Feld Entertainment, say the activists are just philosophically opposed to animals living in captivity and want to destroy a beloved American family tradition.

Defense lawyer John Simpson said the circus is nothing without its elephants, and the tools are needed for safety and are not harmful to the animals.

“For them to come in here and say they are not against the circus is like saying they aren’t against baseball but the use of bats and balls,” Simpson said. He said the circus would not shy from the dispute with animal rights proponents, no matter what it costs. “As far as we’re concerned, bring it on,” Simpson said.

“All right, the battle lines are drawn here,” U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan said as he took the bench for the opening statements. He told both sides it is never too late to settle, drawing laughter from the two sides who have been arguing since the case was filed in 2000.

The two sides gave vastly different descriptions of the main training tool, which resembles a fireplace poker or cane with a metal tip curved down to a point.

Katherine Meyer, arguing for the animal rights groups, showed a bullhook in court and said it’s used to jab, prod and beat the elephants on a daily basis, resulting in puncture wounds, bloody lacerations and infections.

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FEMINISM From Page 3 is possible and where opposing viewpoints can exist.”

Mary Krueger, a participant in the Brown Bag Lunch and the director of the Women’s Center, said that it was important encourage dissent in the classroom among students while still creating fair classroom policy.

“I think that students really need to hear that their grades will not be affected because they disagree,” Krueger said.

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“...students really need to hear their grades will not be affected because they disagree.”

Mary Krueger | Participant Bag Lunch were the feminist classroom as a politicized place and the classroom as safe space vs. a contested space.

“The principle of the classroom as a safe space is really untenable,” Sibielski said. “A classroom is never a safe space and should not always be because it is meant to challenge us and be a place where you can challenge others.”

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SIDELINES

Clawson’s class of ‘09 TENNIS Jakupcin and Harrison named team captains.

Seniors Kelsey Jakupcin and Libby Harrison have been named the team captains for the Falcons tennis team.

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AUSTIN COLLIER: A 6’1”, 195 lbs. wide receiver from Standish-Sterling Central High School in Sterling, Mich.

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Today in Sports History 1991—Big East Conference forms.

1991—L.A. King Dave Taylor becomes 29th person in NHL history to score 1,000 points.

1921—Yankees purchase 20 acres of land in Bronx for Yankee Stadium.

The List With the Super Bowl behind us, it’s time to set our sights on the off season. Today we’re taking a look at the biggest off-season story lines in the NFL. 1. Brett Favre: Will he retire? Will he return? It’s that annual saga we’ve all come to know and expect. With a new head coach and an aging arm, the Jets might be better off moving on.

2. Cowboys: This team has so many issues that the off season is their season.

Jerry Jones says no publicity is bad publicity, but with Terrel Owens dividing the locker room more every day, his future has come into question. Also, is there any seat hotter then Wade Phillips’?

3. Anquan Boldin: The Cardinals came one defensive stop away from being Super Bowl champs.

Now it’s time to deal with that proverbial elephant in the room: an unhappy wide receiver.

4. Patriots QB: Who will it be? Tom Brady may be coming back from his torn ACL, but will he be fully healthy? Matt Cassel had an outstanding season, but will he be expected to go back to the bench?

5. Lions: Will they go with Michael Crabtree with the first overall pick? Probably not. It should be interesting to see who does go number one in the NFL Draft. But perhaps the biggest question is, when will they finally win?

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BG welcomes 22 recruits on National Signing Day

By Jason Jones Assistant Sports Editor

A new crop of faces have joined the BG football family.

National Signing Day concluded yesterday with the signing of 22 high school players to the Falcon football team.

Nineteen out of those 22 recruits come from within what new head coach Dave Clawson calls the “state of Bowling Green.” This state of Bowling Green includes anywhere within a four hour drive of BG and the state of Ohio as a whole.

“Doing a great job in our backyard is, and always will be, a priority of ours in recruiting,” Clawson said.

Twelve of the recruits come from within the state of Ohio.

MORE RECRUITS -Jarius Campbell DE -Aunre’ Davis DB -Vince German FB -Eric Jordan LB -Mark Mays RB -Tim Moore DB -Jordon Roussos DE

Among these home state recruits is Aunre’ Davis. Davis, of Warren, Ohio, has been recruited as a defensive back to address the soon departure of veteren safeties for the Falcons. Davis earned first team all-conference and first team Trumbell County honors during his high school career, and is ranked as a top 100 athlete in the

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PAUL SWAN: A 6’1”, 210 lbs. linebacker from Oconomowoc High School in Nashotah, Wisc.

ALEX THOMAS: A 6’2”, 218 lbs. linebacker from Stow-Monroe Falls High School in Stow, Ohio.

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DWAYNE WOODS: A 6’1”, 220 lbs. linebacker from Princeton High School in Cincinnati.

Hard work gives Clawson strong recruits ANDREW HARNER SPORTS EDITOR

Dave Clawson made it clear when he was hired by BG he wanted to hit recruiting hard.

Coming to BG in the middle of recruiting season with several players recruited heavily by a coach no longer in the program, it wasn’t going to be a shock if the recruiting class was weaker than expected.

But Clawson didn’t just stick to what leftovers would be easy to get.

“If you just take the guys you know you can get, you’re recruiting standards aren’t high enough,” Clawson said.

“There were a lot of good players that we recruited that we didn’t get.”

However, with the help of the two retained assistant coaches — John Hunter and Doug Phillips — Clawson still secured a class better than most maybe expected.

The highlight of the class, for me anyway, is Cuyahoga Valley Christian Academy running back John Pettigrew.

Pettigrew rushed for a total of 6,389 yards in his career, which is eighth best in Ohio high school history.

He even has his jersey retired by the school already.

With no real “stellar” running backs currently in the system, Pettigrew’s presence could be felt soon and often.

Among his other recruits are a highly touted California quarterback in Matthew Schilz,

Michigan’s top defensive end as rated by the Detroit Free Press in Dylan Farrington and a linebacker ranked by ESPN as a top 100 player at his position in Dwayne Woods.

All in all, the Falcons secured four players on the Detroit Free Press’ top 100 list and five of Ohio Magainze’s top 100 recruits.

So how did Clawson secure this kind of class in such a short period of time?

He came to BG wanting to achieve a goal, and he did everything in his power to do so.

Clawson took note of the players he had on the current roster, which players were graduating after next season and where more depth was

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Second line producing for BG hockey Sean Shapiro Reporter

pucks out of the zone, blocked three shots and only registered two penalty minutes.

They also added a goal as Dee Josh Boyd isn’t a big guy. buried a breakaway after assists At 5’6”, 155 lbs., he is the from both his line mates. smallest skater in the Central According to Dee the Collegiate Hockey Association. line started clicking back in But put him between a 5’11” November when BG swept Tommy Dee and 6’2” Patrick Northern Michigan.

Tiesling and the junior center’s “That weekend we played so size isn’t an issue. well,” Dee said. “We didn’t really “It helps me a lot, they create put points on the board but just space and let me work with the the way we played keeping the puck a little bit more,” Boyd said puck in the offensive zone the of his bigger line mates. “It crewhole time.” ates more for the line, they get All three agree it hasn’t been in and bang bodies and I’m not ETHAN MAGOC | THE BG NEWS anything special; they just going to be counted on for runwork hard and take care of their ning guys over.”

SMALL PACKAGES: Despite his small responsibilities on both ends of The space that Dee and size, Boyd has made a big impact. the ice.

Tiesling open up for Boyd has “We all have the same mindallowed him to score a career high three goals and dish out to detail as far as fore-checking set. We play simple and we’re all five assists, four of which have assignments and in the defen- on the same page,” Dee said of gone to Dee. sive zone,” coach Scott Paluch the line, “We know where we are on the ice and we enjoy playing However the lines offensive said of the line.

Two weeks ago, against a much with each other and it’s lead to output, a combined 28 points, isn’t the reason they pose a bigger Lake Superior team, the success.” line added a dynamic the other problem to opponents.

See HOCKEY | Page 7 “They all work extremely hard, three couldn’t, they consistently they all pay very close attention battled in the corners, cleared

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BIG BABY: Otis Polk had his biggest game of the season last night with 16 pts. and 9 rebounds.

Men make it four in a row

By Craig Vanderkam Web Editor

Michigan.

The Falcons improved to 12-9 overall and 5-3 in the conferThe BG men’s basketball team ence behind the efforts of three extended their season-best win- double-digit scorers. Nate Miller ning streak to four games and led the team with 21 points, Otis remained undefeated against Polk added 16 and Brian Moten the Mid-American Conference See FOUR | Page 7 West division this season with a 68-61 victory over Western

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ples as athletes and good life examples.�

Harrison also feels she and The BG women’s tennis team Jakupcin do their best to set good has a perfect 3-0 record thus examples on and off the court. “I’ve had a lot of good captains far in their winter season, and head coach Penny Dean has had that I’ve looked up to,� Harrison a little help keeping her team said. “I feel honored to be in a role that allows my teammates motivated and focused.

This year, the tennis, squad to look up to me.�

Jakupcin is from Dublin, Ohio, voted in two captains—seniors Kelsey Jakupcin and Libby and followed her sisters’ footHarrison—to lead their team. steps by coming to BG. Her older According to Dean, two captains sister, Ashley, played for the tenare chosen each year, as voted by nis team. They were teammates for two years. During the 2007their teammates. “Sometimes I might have a 08 season, Jakupcin was named small input, but not usually,� to the Academic All-MAC Team.

Dean said. “The girls make She is a communication disorsmart choices [choosing their ders major planning to attend graduate school. captains].�

Though balancing school, After being on the team for four years, Jakupcin says she is tennis, and her leadership role grateful for being chosen to lead on the team may seem difficult to some, Jakupcin says after four her team. “I’ve looked up to past captains, years, she has it down to a sciand I’m excited to have emerged ence. “School is extremely imporinto a leadership role,� Jakupcin said. “I’m excited to be the one tant to me,� Jakupcin said. “I’ve learned to really manage my that is looked up to now.�

Dean said she was happy with time and not procrastinate so the result of the votes, and she I have time for the team and feels both captains have the school.�

Harrison is a dietetics major traits needed to be successful from Dayton. Her father is a leaders. “[They have a] good aware- tennis professional, and got her ness of what our goals are and and her older sister into playing what every player needs to do when Harrison was 4 years old. to accomplish the goals,� Dean Harrison will graduate from BG said. “They both set good exam- in the fall.

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“Taking my time in the low post instead of rushing it has really helped me a lot,� Polk said. “I just try to be legally chipped in with 11. physical on the defensive end.�

Miller also led the team in It was Polk’s third straight rebounding with 13. The senior game in double figure points. added three assists, two steals Head coach Louis Orr credited and two blocks and credited his his confidence as the reason for his efficiency. energy for his stat line. “His confidence is growing,� “I played with a lot of energy, and that’s when I play best,� Orr said. “We want to be able to Miller said. “I came out and utilize his size and take advanwas a leader for my team and tage of it.�

Orr commended his team for we were able to get the win.�

For Polk, his 16 points tonight the win despite shooting just 39 came on four-for-five shooting. percent. He mentioned defense, He added nine rebounds and a rebounding and points in the career-high five blocks, citing paint as the keys to the victory. “We have a term of being patience for his productivity.

As captains, the pair try to make practice and competition fun. In order to do this, Jakupcin says she and Harrison have a precompetition tradition. “Libby and I do a traditional quote before each match,�

Jakupcin said. “Some weeks we have a theme, but we say the quote and talk about it before and after the matches. It really gets everyone going in a positive way.�

The pair also tries to get the team together off the court. “We try to get everyone together off the court as much as possible,� Harrison said . “That way we have a chance to get to bond and get to know each other better.�

As seniors, this is the last BG tennis season for the captains.

Harrison and Jakupcin say it is bittersweet, but they are determined to make this their best seasons yet. “It will be sad more toward the end of the season,� Harrison said. “Right now I’m just excited for each match, and not taking anything for granted.�

Harrison and Jakupcin will lead their team in dual home matches at the Perrysburg Tennis Center this weekend.

The Falcons will face Xavier at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 7, and Cincinnati at 12 p.m.on Sunday, Feb. 8. ‘on the grind,’â€? Orr said. “Our team’s identity is to be on the grind ‌ to be able to win games, or have a chance to win games when you shoot [that percentage]. You don’t want your field goal percentage to dictate other areas of the game.â€?

BG led by as many as 12 in the second half and never trailed after being down 6-4 early in the first half. The Falcons will look for their third straight road win Saturday as they travel to Mount Pleasant, Mich. to go up against Central Michigan. “Our team is starting to feel it,�

Miller said. “We are a confident team right now and playing well together.�

Case against Bonds continues to grow

By Paul Elias The Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge on Wednesday unsealed hundreds of pages of court documents at the heart of the government’s criminal case against Barry Bonds, including positive drug tests that prosecutors linked to the home run king.

The documents also include a transcript of a taped conversation between Bonds’ personal trainer and personal assistant discussing injecting the slugger, plus a list of current and former major leaguers, including Jason Giambi, who are scheduled to testify for the government at Bonds’ upcoming trial.

The former San Francisco Giant is charged with lying to a grand jury when he said he never knowingly used performance-enhancing drugs. His trial is scheduled for next month.

Federal prosecutors allege that Bonds knowingly used steroids, including a once undetectable designer drug.

Bonds lawyers moved to suppress 24 drug tests from 2000-06; more than two dozen drug calendars; BALCO log sheets;, handwritten notes; opinion evidence on steroids, human growth hormone, THG, EPO and Clomid; witness

descriptions of Bonds’ “physical, behavioral and emotional characteristics� — including acne on his back, testical shrinkage, head size, hat size, hand size, foot size and sexual behavior — recorded conversations that didn’t include Bonds; and voice mails allegedly left by Bonds on the answering machine of former girlfriend Kimberly Bell, which the government says “many of which were extremely hostile and threatening.�

The documents unsealed Wednesday are connected to Bonds’ efforts to prevent prosecutors from showing the jury much of the government’s evidence, including at least four positive steroid tests they argue can’t be conclusively linked to Bonds because of how they were processed.

According to records prosecutors took from BALCO, Bonds tested positive on three separate occasions in 2000 and 2001 for the steroid methenelone in urine samples; he also tested positive two of those three times for the steroid nandrolone. Prosecutors want to use those test results to show Bonds lied when he told a grand jury in December 2003 that he never knowingly used steroids.

In addition, a governmentretained scientist said he found

evidence that Bonds used the designer steroid THG upon retesting a urine sample Bonds supplied as part of baseball’s anonymous survey drug testing in 2003. Federal investigators seized them in 2004 from the private laboratory used

by Major League Baseball before they could be destroyed, which the players were promised.

Included in the evidence was a letter from baseball independent drug administrator Bryan Smith that Bonds tested positive for an amphetamine during a drug test on July 7, 2006, and a letter from baseball commissioner Bud Selig to Bonds that Aug. 1 informing him of the positive test and telling him that he will be subject to six more tests over a one-year period.

The New York Daily News reported on that test on Jan. 11, 2007, saying Bonds attributed the positive test to a substance he had taken from teammate Mark Sweeney’s locker.

The court documents also show that prosecutors plan on calling to the witness stand Giambi of the Oakland A’s, along with his brother and former major leaguer Jeremy Giambi. The government also plans to call Bobby Estalella, Marvin Barnard and Benito Santiago, all former Bonds teammates.

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rated as the No. 5 quarterback not going to a BCS school. He threw for 3,200 yards and 31 From Page 6 touchdowns during his senior season, and was named 2008country by ESPN.com.

Also addressed by Clawson as 09 ALL-CIF Southern Section a major concern was the run- Quarterback. “He (Schilz) was committed ning back position. “We’re a little short at the run- to go to Kansas State,� Clawson ning back position,� Clawson said. “He had such a good relationship with their offensive said.

Among the three running coordinator (Warren Ruggiero), backs who signed yesterday was and when he came here, he John Pettigrew of Cuyahoga wanted to play for him.�

Clawson and the Falcons also Falls, Ohio. While in high school Pettigrew was named picked up a tight end and a fullthe Cleveland Plain Dealer back. This is significant because Offensive Player of the Year, and unlike in the old offense, the was named first-team All-Ohio new offense will feature more as a senior. In his career, he ran significant roles for both posifor 6,389 yards, the eighth most tions. Alex Bayer of Pickerington, in Ohio high school football his- Ohio was brought in as the tight end, and Vince German of tory.

The big out of state catch for Newark, Ohio was brought in as the Falcons was quarterback the fullback.

Along with Davis, five other Matthew Schilz. Schilz hails from Arcadia, Calif., and is defensive lineman signed, more

than any other position. “We’d like to be able to have our defensive line blitzing the quarterback,� Clawson said.

Clawson gave a great deal of credit to his assistant coaches, two of which stayed after the firing of Gregg Brandon and helped with recruits during the two week coaching vacancy.

Clawson also unvieled some of his possible plans for the players, saying he’d like to redshirt as many as possible. “You give up that year when they’re 18, and you gain that year when they’re 22,� Clawson said.

Upon first impression, it’s likely that Schilz will spend his first year as a redshirt, learning from current starting senior quarterback Tyler Sheehan.

In a video presentation of each recruit at a 4:00 p.m. press conference, one thing was evident.

The future of Falcons football has a lot of potential.

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“The highlight of the class, for me anyway, is Cuyahoga Valley Christian Academy’s running back John Pettigrew.�

needed.

After figuring that out, he began the grind of driving to and from to meet athletes and their parents saying he made every planned trip except one.

Not only that, there were only 25 official recruiting visits to BG and 22 of those ended up with signings, a success rate Clawson didn’t think he’d ever seen before.

So how did he do that?

He gave the credit to his players on that one.

Clawson said when he was hired he needed his players to take his “blind trust,� and apparently that worked out for him.

During visits, Clawson said his players showed enthusiasm for the program, which reflected positively on the program and may have influenced some of those recruits to sign their National Letter of Intent. “It’s expected of them (play-

ers),� Clawson said. “Our players did a great job. They really deserve a bulk of the credit for the quality of this class.�

Clawson also established the “state of Bowling Green� which includes all of Ohio and any area within a four hour drive of the city.

All in all, 19 of his recruits came from that area with 12 coming from the Buckeye State.

As mentioned, the depth of the current team was cited by Clawson as a reason why he recruited some of the positions he did.

For example, only one offensive lineman was recruited.

The reason? “We budget every position on the team,� Clawson said. “We don’t lose a lot of offensive linemen next year.�

To the contrary, there are four senior linebackers graduating next season, which is why Clawson focused a lot of attention on the position signing three.

Clawson also mentioned

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combining for four points in the last four games.

In addition to their cohesiveness on the ice, the line fits perDespite the physical play they fectly together on the numerical bring to a game, all three players roster.

Tiesling wears 25, Boyd 26 keep it clean combining for only 36 penalty minutes through 28 and Dee dons 27. “We just call ourselves two-five, games. In contrast, seven other Falcons have more penalties two-six, two-seven,� Tiesling said. then the entire line combined.

A line of two juniors and a Since the new year, the line has become a much bigger part sophomore the line figures to be of the Falcon’s offense, scor- a big part of the Falcons through ing a game winning goal in a the rest of 2009 and the follow3-0 upset of No. 6 Michigan and ing season.

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The ultimate goal for this class is for all 22 to graduate and for 17 to be starting in three years.

Clawson has set a high goal for himself, but if anyone can achieve that goal in BG, he seems to be the guy for the job.

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SAN DIEGO — He captured more majors than anyone last year, won every player of the year award on golf’s landscape and will make his PGA Tour debut this week in the Buick Invitational.

The story should sound familiar, just not the name.

“Never really thought of it that way,” Padraig Harrington said yesterday.

Instead of Tiger Woods, the feature attraction at Torrey Pines is Harrington, who has won three of the last six majors, including consecutive titles last year in the British Open and PGA Championship.

Harrington is No. 3 in the world, the highest-ranked player at the Buick Invitational by a small margin over hometown star Phil Mickelson. And while Lefty figures to attract the largest gallery — the security detail that usually follows Woods has been assigned to him — the Irishman was the No. 1 pick at the pro-am draw party.

This will be the earliest Harrington has started on the PGA Tour, but he could not think of a better place.

He was at Torrey Pines for the U.S. Open last summer, but this is his first time to play the Buick Invitational. He spent his pro-am yesterday on the North course, which in June was occupied by parking lots, practice areas, corporate tents and the media center.

Reaching the crest of the fifth fairway, staring below at the green, the cliffs and the Pacific Ocean, Harrington caught himself.

“This is a particularly pretty view,” he said, a rare understatement by his standards.

And when one of his amateur partners asked him to list his favorite golf course in America (not counting Augusta National), Harrington listed the next three tournaments on his schedule — Torrey Pines, Pebble Beach

NEW YORK — Three straight BCS breakdowns aren’t keeping the big-time recruits away from Ohio State.

Coach Jim Tressel turned another batch of blue-chippers into Buckeyes, putting together a class that rated among the best in the nation yesterday, the first day high school players can make their verbal commitments to colleges official.

Most of the usual suspects cleaned up on the recruiting trail: Southern California, Texas and LSU have classes that experts are touting as top10 caliber.

Defending champion Florida’s class is small — that’s what happens when a team wins a national title with a roster full of underclassmen — but strong.

Michigan’s first class fully recruited by new coach Rich Rodriguez should give Wolverines fans some hope for a brighter future after a 3-9 debacle in 2008.

Miami coach Randy Shannon is poised to have a second consecutive promising signing day, though the Hurricanes won’t know if top-rated running back Bryce Brown of Wichita, Kan., will keep his verbal commitment to them or switch to Oregon or Kansas State. Brown’s adviser said it will be several weeks before Brown signs a letter of intent.

And at Alabama, Nick Saban has another top-rated class lined up to help him keep the Crimson Tide where he had them for much of the 2008 season: atop the polls.

The national championship has been elusive for Tressel and the Buckeyes in recent years, despite Ohio State’s domination of the Big Ten. Ohio State has won or shared four straight conference titles,

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LOOKING GOOD: Padraig Harrington is the feature attraction at Torrey Pines.

and Riviera, the only time in PGA Tour history that three straight tournaments are held at U.S. Open venues.

What kind of game he will bring to those courses remains a mystery.

“Less than sharp,” Harrington said.

He takes a two-month break from tournament golf during the winter, but he is always working, always refining his swing to find a way to make it better. He concedes that it takes time for the moving parts to get in sync.

“You can practice as much as you like, go on the golf course and play as much as you like,” he said.

“But it’s totally different when you have a card in your hand.”

Good thing his card on yesterday was only for a pro-am.

From 90 yards short of the fourth green, he looked like one of his amateurs when he chunked a sand wedge that didn’t get halfway to the green. On the uphill seventh along the cliffs, he hooked his tee shot into hazard.

He wound up with a 73 on the easy North.

In some respects, Harrington filled the void when Woods missed the second half of the season with knee surgery, at least in performance. He won the British Open, the first major without Woods since he turned pro. Harrington was Tiger-like

in winning consecutive majors.

And just like Woods, his performance in the Ryder Cup was not up to par.

But the biggest difference is the start to his season.

Woods shows up at every tournament prepared to win, and he usually does, especially at Torrey Pines. Harrington is the first to admit he’s not there yet, and might never be.

“I go to events hopeful,” he said with a laugh. “I’m hoping the game will be there, but not expecting it.”

The earliest Harrington has won in a season was the 2005 Honda Classic, held in March, but that was his fourth straight start. Harrington made his 2009 debut three weeks ago in Abu Dhabi and tied for fifth, a pleasant surprise.

But it was a surprise.

He is a control freak, getting more satisfaction out of knowing he can hit the proper shot instead of simply seeing a good shot.

“This is a good example,” he said as he walked down the eighth fairway toward his tee shot, nestled in the rough some 10 yards left of the fairway. “I thought I made a good swing. I felt it would start down the middle. But it started down the left side with a draw. It was a surprise to see it start 10 yards left of where I was aiming.

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GREAT MINDS: Jim Tressel and Mack Brown once again brought in stellar classes.

but lost three consecutive Bowl Championship Series games, including back-to-back title games after the 2006 and ‘07 seasons.

The Buckeyes had their hearts broken again in January, losing 24-21 to Texas in the Fiesta Bowl on a last-minute touchdown.

Maybe a recruiting national title will lift the spirits of Buckeyes fans?

“Recruits are not paying any attention to the game results,” Allen Wallace of Scout.com and SuperPrep Magazine said Wednesday. “For some kids it might serve as a reason to jump on the bandwagon. They go in thinking, ‘Maybe I can make the difference.’”

Ohio State had the majority of its class signed before noon, a group that includes most of the top players in the Buckeye state. Going into signing day, Ohio State was ranked No. 1 by both Rivals.com and Scout. com.

“Jim Tressel is one of the great national recruiters,” said Tom Lemming of CBS College Sports, who had Ohio State No. 2, behind LSU. “He has a fence around the state of Ohio and

put it up again this year. He also did a great job in western Pennsylvania.”

Linebacker Dorian Bell and defensive back Corey Brown, teammates at Gateway High School in Monroeville, Pa., and both given five stars (out of five) by Rivals.com, are headed to Ohio State.

Tressel even managed to convince a couple of four-star recruits from the Sunshine State — running back Jaamal Berry of Miami and wide receiver Duron Carter of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. — to leave the Deep South and brave chilly temperatures in Columbus.

Carter has family ties to Ohio State. His father is former Buckeyes great Cris Carter.

Coach Urban Meyer’s Gators made it three consecutive national championships for the Southeastern Conference with their 24-14 victory over Oklahoma in Miami last month.

And when it comes to recruiting, the SEC is just about as good. Scout.com had 10 of the 12 SEC programs among its top 25 recruiting classes heading into signing day. Rivals’ top 25 had nine SEC teams.

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DOWN TIME: In this March 1, 2005 file photo, a U.S. military personnel member walks at the U.S. air base at Manas international airport, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek. Kyrgyzstan’s government submitted a draft bill to parliament yesterday.

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MOSCOW — President Dmitry Medvedev said yesterday that Russia and its ex-Soviet allies wanted to cooperate with the United States on stabilizing Afghanistan but he appeared to link any help to changes in Western policy.

Saying Moscow and its allies “are ready for full-fledged, comprehensive cooperation,” the Russian leader seemed to imply that Moscow’s help on Afghanistan was contingent on a broader list of changes it wants from the new U.S. administration.

These include a halt to NATO enlargement in Europe and the cancellation of plans for a U.S. missile-defense system on Russia’s western borders.

Medvedev spoke less than a day after Kyrgyzstan got billions in new Russian aid and announced it was evicting the U.S. from an air base key to Afghan operations. His mix of conciliatory language and implicit demand for U.S. concessions may represent a risky attempt to pursue conflicting strategic goals at a moment when U.S. policy on Afghanistan is being remade by President Barack Obama.

Russia has long been irritated by the U.S. military presence in what is considers its natural areas of influence in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The Kremlin is widely believed to be behind the move against the U.S.

by Kyrgyzstan’s government, which submitted a draft bill to parliament yesterday that would close the Manas air base.

But Moscow, which fought its own bloody and unsuccessful 10-

year war to control Afghanistan, also does not want the country’s instability spreading north toward Russia. The Kremlin has said it is open to aiding U.S. and NATO efforts in Afghanistan by helping to find alternatives to Pakistani supply lines that are increasingly threatened by militant attacks.

Medvedev spoke after a meeting of presidents from the sevenmember Collective Security Treaty Organization — a loose, Moscow-dominated alliance made up of Kyrgyzstan and other ex-Soviet states. The group announced the creation of a joint rapid-reaction force that would boost the military dimension of an alliance that has until now served mostly as a forum for security consultations.

“Russia and other CSTO members are ready for full-fledged, comprehensive cooperation with the United States and other coalition members in fighting terrorism in the region,” Medvedev told reporters. “This fight must be comprehensive and include both military and political components. Only in this case will there be a chance to succeed.”

He said Obama was right in making Afghanistan’s stability a priority, but he also appeared to criticize U.S. efforts there, saying it would be impossible to defeat terrorism only using military means.

“It is necessary to form a fullfledged political system, keeping in mind, cultural and historic traditions. Democracy cannot be forced upon (a country). It must grow from within,” he said.

“It’s not the number of bases that matters. It would be good if that would help reduce the number

of terrorists, but the fight against terrorism is not limited to building up military forces.”

Russia announced a $2.15 billion aid package for Kyrgyzstan Tuesday hours before Kyrgyz leader Kurmanbek Bakiyev’s statement about ending the U.S. presence. Russian officials have denied any connection between the two.

Losing Manas would pose a serious challenge to Obama’s plan to send up to 30,000 more American forces into Afghanistan this year to fighting surging Taliban and al-Qaida violence.

The United States set up Manas and a base in neighboring Uzbekistan after the September 2001 attacks to back operations in Afghanistan. Uzbekistan expelled U.S. troops from the base on its territory in 2005 in a dispute over human rights issues, leaving Manas as the only U.S. military facility in the immediate region.

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Raging fire burns 134-year-old landmark cathedral

By Carla K. Johnson The Associated Press

MEL EVANS | AP PHOTO

NO SMOKING ALLOWED: In this Monday, Oct. 6, 2008 file photograph, a smoking prohibited sign is displayed in an area of Caesars Casino in Atlantic City.

Recession causes smoking bans to halt

By Kristen Wyatt The Associated Press

DENVER — In this economy, lawmakers are more willing to let people smoke ‘em if they got ‘em.

As recently as last year, many states and major cities seemed ready to adopt complete indoor smoking bans. But the movement to kick all smokers outdoors has stalled as the recession worsens and lawmakers fear hurting business at bars, restaurants and casinos.

“This economy, it creates a little more sympathy for the business person. So when we say this is going to put us out of business, believe me, they’re listening,” said Mike Moser, executive director of the Wyoming State Liquor Association.

Twenty-three states, as well as Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico, have indoor smoking bans covering bars and restaurants. No one else has adopted a ban in the early weeks of this year’s legislative sessions.

In Colorado, lawmakers are considering easing the rules after they banned smoking in most bars, restaurants and casinos.

New Jersey put off a smoking ban for Atlantic City casinos after five of 11 casinos warned they could file for bankruptcy by year’s end. In Virginia, a proposed statewide ban stalled this year after

lawmakers expressed concern about the economy.

Moser’s group opposes an indoor smoking ban that has been offered in Wyoming. After businesses raised objections, state lawmakers last month exempted bars from the legislation.

In cities that have banned smoking in bars, “it’s just killing them,” said Mike Reid, owner of a wine bar in Casper. Reid voluntarily banned smoking in his bar, but opposes the forced ban as president of the liquor association.

“When someone builds a business with a clientele that smokes, they should be able to go in there and smoke,” Reid said.

Health advocates are citing the economy to argue their side, too.

With state budgets burdened by rising health care costs, banning smoking saves the government money in the long run, they say.

In Kansas, which has no statewide ban, advocates are circulating a new state health report predicting Kansas would save $20 million in health care costs the first year smoking is banned in bars and restaurants.

“This whole economic argument is hogwash, scientifically, but that doesn’t mean it’s not politically useful,” said Dr. Stanton Glantz, director of the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at the University of California, San Francisco.

CHICAGO — A fire burned for more than two hours yesterday at Holy Name Cathedral, severely damaging the attic and leaving gaping holes in the roof of the 134-year-old landmark and seat of Cardinal Francis George.

Firefighters battled the blaze in frigid temperatures at the iconic church, which had been destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire and rebuilt.

“First we have to thank God no one was injured,” George said after surveying the damage inside the church.

“Chicago has always bounced back from fires.”

Flames shot through Holy Name’s roof for about an hour before being replaced by plumes of white smoke. The fire was out around 8 a.m.

Afterward, icicles hung from pews and water dripped from

light fixtures, George said.

While no injuries were reported from the blaze, a firefighter suffered a minor back sprain after slipping and falling.

There was no smoke or fire damage in the sanctuary, fire department spokesman Larry Langford said. The cause is under investigation.

Holy Name’s pastor, the Rev. Daniel Mayall, said the fire set off the sprinkler system, which kept the flames from extensive wood paneling and ornate decorations.

But Chicago Archdiocese Chancellor Jimmy Lago described the water damage to the church as “humongous,” and said crews were pumping water from the basement.

Church officials said it was too early to estimate the full extent of the damage, but CHARLES REX ARBOGAST | AP PHOTO Lago said he expected the cathedral to be closed for RAVAGED: Chicago firefighters work in freezing temperatures on an extra-alarm fire at the Holy Name Cathedral,the seat of Cardinal Francis George, in Chicago. months.

State Medical Board doctor critically injured in explosion

By Woody Baird The Associated Press

WEST MEMPHIS, Ark. — A car bomb explosion critically injured the head of the Arkansas State Medical Board yesterday, detonating in his driveway as he was leaving for work, authorities said.

Trent P. Pierce, who oversees the board that licenses and disciplines the state’s doctors, was injured after “some type of explosive device” tore through his car, West Memphis Police Chief Bob Paudert said.

“We believe he was on the outside of the car when the explosion occurred,” Paudert said.

Pierce, a family physician, was taken to Regional Medical Center in Memphis, Tenn., where he was listed in critical condition, hospital spokeswoman Sandy Snell said.

MIKE DOUGLAS | AP PHOTO

DESTROYED: The car of Dr. Trent Pierce, Chairman of the Arkansas State Medical Board, is seen after it exploded outside his home in West Memphis, Ark.

FBI spokesman Jason Pack in Washington said a second person also was injured. He would not provide further details.

Board attorney William Trice, of Little Rock, said he knew of no heated disputes involving Pierce and said Pierce often

didn’t take part in board votes.

“This is just off the wall,” Trice said. “It’s just such bizarre circumstances.”

Pierce’s white Lexus hybrid sat wrecked in his driveway, its hood open and bumper partially torn away.

Police blocked off the street outside Pierce’s home, and officers walked back and forth with dogs. Investigators from the Arkansas State Police bomb squad and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives could also be seen.

ATF agents did not immediately return a call for comment.

Paudert said he planned to meet with ATF agents. He did not elaborate.

Pierce, who is in his 50s, was expected to attend board subcommittee meetings yesterday in Little Rock.

He was appointed to the board in January 1997 and reappointed in 2005 by former Gov. Mike Huckabee. The board oversees the practice of medicine in Arkansas and can discipline doctors for wrongdoing, including revoking their medical licenses.

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